William LACHANCE, CALIFORNIA P
Schedule
Sun Nov 14 2021 at 10:00 am
Location
pin320 S Cedros Ave, Solana Beach, CA 92075-1919, United States | Solana Beach, CA
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Solana Beach, California – Madison Gallery is proud to announce St Louis artist William LaChance’s first solo exhibition, California Psychics. Below, the artist shares his thoughts and vision while creating these
works.
“CALIFORNIA PSYCHICS is a series of large scale frieze-like paintings as escapist freedom fantasies painted
largely during peak COVID lockdown and spanning to the present. The compositions of staggered, vertical
bands imply the filmic rhythm of walking past without stopping- a conscious nod to the vacant barstools in
Edward Hopper’s isolation anxiety masterpiece, “Nighthawks”. The colors, shapes and scale relationships
recall the randomness of skateboard motifs bedecked with miscellaneous stickers or perhaps the brightly
colored iron-on transfers of bygone t-shirt shops — or in other cases, the unfamiliar logos and vernacular
signage of foreign bodegas- all visual intimations of being somewhere else in time and place. “
William LaChance (b. 1971, St Louis, Missouri) lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated with a BFA
from The Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from Indiana University. LaChance's pictures are associations of
displaced forms and colors cribbed from graphic design, fashion, art history and nature itself cobbled
together using a variety of methods and materials from painting and printmaking to assemblage and
sewing. The paintings themselves have shifting hierarchies of similar concerns: of material exploration,
abstract identity, formal space and narrative expression. They openly blur the boundary between high art
and applied arts not only in principle but in practice- lending themselves to various manner of surface
design, from textiles and branding to fully realized earthworks. LaChance's recent mural adorning the
Kinloch Park basketball courts was named the best designed basketball court in the world by Architectural
Digest. Since 2015, LaChance has exhibited in London, Paris, New York, Athens, Miami, San Diego,
Amsterdam and Tokyo. His works have been collected extensively in private and public collections
worldwide, including NIKE, Pernod Ricard, Warby Parker, The U.S. Federal Reserve, Hobbes London, Milla
Jovovich, Sergio Marchionne / Ferrari and NBC. He has received press both online and in print, including
Artsy, Juxtapoz, Forbes, Vogue, L'Officiel, Surface, Dezeen, Architectural Digest and Le Mille.
Founded in 2001, Madison Gallery is committed to representing emerging, mid-career and established
international artists who work in a range of media. Inspired by an earnest dedication and passion for art, the
gallery consistently exhibits a high standard of contemporary art. Madison Gallery works closely in building
private, corporate and public collections thus placing it amongst the leading contemporary galleries in
California.
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